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WILLIAM OHEGWIN AND WILLIAM A. ELDREDGE, OF FOND DU LAO, WIS.

HOLDBACK FOR VEHECLES.

QPECIPICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,0l5, dated October 27, 1885.

Application filed April 2, 1885. Serial No. 161,045. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM Gnnewnv and'WILLIAM A. ELDnnDen, citizens of the United States, residing at Fond du Lac, in the county of Fond du Lac and State of WVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Holdback Attachments for Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention has for its object to connect the holdback-straps of harness to the shafts of a vehicle without passing the said straps around the shafts or using buckles, hooks, snaps, or other like fastening appliances; and our invention consists in a holdback attachment composed of a block provided with a finger, standard, and guard arranged, as fully set forth hereinafter, to permit a loop of the holdback-strap to be slipped readily off the finger, either to attach it or disconnect it and to securely hold it upon the finger during the time that the animal is harnessed to the vehicle.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating one construction of our improved attachment. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan of the attachment shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is a perspective view showing another form in which the attachment may be made. Fig. 4 is a perspective view looking from the corner of the attachment shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a perspective view illustrating the attachment shown in Fig. 3 applied to the shaft of a vehicle.

The attachment consists, essentially, of a plate, A, perforated for the passage of securing-bolts, or otherwise constructed for attachment to the under side of the shaft of a vehicle, a finger, a, extending across the under side of the plate at a short distance Lelow the same, and supported bya standard or connection, I), at one edge of the plate, and one or more guards, d, at the opposite edge of the plate, extending below the finger a, with an edge, 00, curved to coincide with the curve of the side of the finger, but at a sufficient distance therefrom to permit a looped strap to be applied vertically to the finger in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 4, and pushed inward until the loop incloses the finger and the inner edge of the loop is against the standard b.

After the strap has been carried inward beyond the guard d, it may be swung upon the finger a to an inclined or horizontal position, (shown in Fig. 5,) when it will be maintained in contact with the said finger, and between the standard b andthe guard d, which will effectually prevent the loop from slipping laterally off the finger in either direction. The loop may, however, at any time be readily detached by bringing it to a vertical position and then drawing it laterally outward in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 4.

When the attachments are intended for application to either of the shafts, there are two guards, d 01, one at each side of the finger, as shown in Figs. 3, 4-, and 5, so that the attachment may be effectively used in connection with either shaft; but in cases where it is desired that the attachment may be applicable to only one of the shafts two forms are required for each vehicle, the said attachments being rights and lofts, in which case there is but one guard, d, on each attachment, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. In either case the mode of applying the loop and the manner in which it is secured are the same.

It will be seen that the device constructed as above described may be cheaply cast in a single piece, and that it affords a means of connecting the holdback to the shaft without passing the strap round the shaft or the use of buckles, hooks, snaps, or other like appliances.

The pin a may extend across the plate A at right angles to the edge of the latter, as shown in Fig. 3, or at an angle thereto, as shown in Fig. 4.

Without limiting ourselves to the precise construction and arrangement of parts shown and described, we claim- 1. Aholdback consisting of aplate adapted for attachment to the under side of a shaft, and provided at one edge with adownwardlyextending standard, I), a finger extending below the plate from said standard, and a guard projecting down past the side of the finger at the opposite edge, constructed to leave an unobstructed passage beneath the finger, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a shaft, of a holdback consisting of a plate havingadownwardly-projeeting standard and lateral finger below the plate, and a guard extending down Ward past the finger to leave the passage below the finger, as set forth. I

3. A holdback attachment consisting of a plate having a standard at one edge and two guards at the other, and a finger projecting from the standard parallel to the under side of the plate and extending between the guards with a passage below the finger, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof we have signed our two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM GHEGVVIN. W. A. ELDREDGE.

Witnesses:

A. J. HAYES, FRED. RONDO.

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